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To: oceanview
the UAE knows EXACTLY what they are doing buying this company, as opposed to buying a much more profitable casino operation. they want a toe hold in strategic US industries.

Doncasters is a British firm, as was P&O. Doncasters has these operations in the US ...

Doncasters Storms Forge
160 Cottage Street
Springfield
Massachusetts

Certified Alloy Products Inc
3245 Cherry Avenue, PO Box 90
Long Beach
California

Doncasters Southern Tool
508 Hamric Drive West
Oxford
Alabama

Doncasters Medical Technologies - Alabama Operations
331 City Park Drive SE
Arab
Alabama

Doncasters Effingham
145 Industrial Boulevard
Rincon
Georgia

Doncasters New England Airfoil Products
36 Spring Lane
Farmington
Connecticut

Doncasters Precision Castings - New England (Groton)
835 Poquonnock Road, PO Box 1146
Groton
Connecticut

Doncasters Trucast Inc.
81 Mawsons Way
Newberry
South Carolina

Most of those businesses are unrelated to defense, e.g., industrial turbine and turbocharger rotors, and the medical one. I don't know how the cash flow and other particulars break out among these operations and the rest of Doncasters. Doncasters is an international operation, and as noted in my previous, it is possible in principle to part out the company.

The Doncasters website is pretty informative - at least as a place to start fact gathering.

I suspect there are some unintended consequences if "we" aim to consign foreign (UAE/Arab/Chinese/Russian/etc.) investment to only service and entertainment sectors.

40 posted on 03/21/2006 7:09:08 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

plenty of US auto companies looking for investments. hey, the market for small private jets is BOOMING in the US - maybe the UAE could buy something there. lots of tech companies looking for new investors too. let the UAE buy TIVO, I could care less. they could also take minority stakes in a whole host of public companies. I could go on and on.

when lined up side by side, the list of things they COULD BUY without question is far longer then the list of things that will raise eyebrows. yet, they keeping coming at us on the short list.


49 posted on 03/21/2006 7:13:56 PM PST by oceanview
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To: Cboldt

bttt


115 posted on 03/21/2006 7:55:15 PM PST by nopardons
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